When a child's sexual abuse is revealed, it only affects and marks the people who are close to the child. This is most often the immediate family. The family is a child's first social environment, which is supposed to be a safe environment, but unfortunately this is not always the case. The perpetrator of the child's sexual abuse is often someone the child trusts, most often a family member. The mere disclosure of sexual abuse shakes and causes an immediate crisis and great unrest in the family. The disclosure of sexual abuse and the first reactions to the disclosure is a significant emotional and psychological burden for the family. During this time, the family is dealing with many anxieties and other manifestations of friction between family members. Feelings of isolation arise within the family as the family itself tries to deal with all the changes occurring in the family system caused by the disclosure of the abuse. Coping with disclosure of abuse is influenced by their social mobility in achieving change and overcoming fears. Disclosure of sexual abuse is still treated as a taboo, due to the social and cultural contexts created in society itself. The feelings that arise at the time of disclosure lead the family to distance themselves and persistently search for their resources to deal with the consequences of the abuse. This can lead to the disintegration or reconstruction of the family, as this greatly shakes their reality. When the gender of the abuse is revealed, experts only focus on helping and supporting the victim's recovery, while the family remains neglected. Although other family members are also offered help and support for dealing with the consequences of sexual abuse, they mostly only receive help and support if they organize themselves. Even the environment upon disclosure of sexual abuse stigmatizes the family and defines it as dysfunctional. Not only does the disclosure of the child's gender abuse itself affect the existing relationships between family members, this is also helped by the environment and the fact that in most cases the family is left to deal with the consequences of the sexual abuse and recovery after the disclosure.
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